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...deep recession has caused an uptick in homelessness in rural communities as well. Tent communities began to spring up among the lovely farms and rolling hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, last fall, says Community Homeless Advisor Kay Mosher McDivitt. In December, McDivitt told congressional staff on the Housing committees that Lancaster County has focused on rapid rehousing for several years, with good results. "With the shift in focus," says McDivitt, "we were able to move families out of shelter and back into permanent housing more quickly, often within three months or less, and 80% of these families are able...
...example, McDivitt spoke about Mary, a mother with two small sons who had lost her job and was four months behind on rent. With the help of HPRP and intervention by a case manager, the landlord forgave three months' rent. With only one month in arrears and one month of future rent, Mary was able to find a full-time job and arrange for day care, and by the second month, she was again able to pay her rent...
...dollars of clothes worldwide ("Consumer items nobody needed," Tompkins ruefully says now). All that changed when he became involved in radical environmental projects - what he calls his "restoration work," returning native animal and plant species to the nation-sized swaths of property he owns. He and his wife Kristine McDivitt, a former CEO of the Patagonia clothing retail chain and wealthy in her own right, believe in deep ecology, a severe branch of the movement that believes in restoring the original ecological balance of the earth. Tompkins is fond of reminding listeners that unless runaway consumerism is halted "we humans...
Though an earlier, similar experiment by an Iowa utility ended abruptly when worries arose over the burning of a corn fungicide, LMU has not met any environmentalist opposition. The corn "burns cleanly and has no detectable emissions," says Edwin McDivitt, 49, manager of utilities for LMU and the driving force behind the idea. He adds: "It would be nice to say that we did it for environmental reasons, but I got into it to save a buck...
Strong points in the field events look to be sophomore Dave Kinney in the javelin and Joe Pellegrini and Chris Queenan in the discus. Tom McDivitt will be supporting veteran hammer hurler Ed Ajootian in that event...